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Before I start reliving November 14th (which was the penultimate day of the entire trip for us) I hope you will allow me a bit of a retrospective. It has been just over a month since I last posted, and I came up with a ton of excuses for myself behind the delay. In the last few weeks I have been grappling with some challenging news concerning two of my dearest friends and I am trying to get my arms around it all. I went for a long walk in the “tundra” which is what Connecticut feels like in the winter when compared to summer in Botswana. I saw a beautiful red-tail hawk soaring, a very confused blue bird who appeared as frustrated with the cold as I was, and three white-tailed deer loping through the snow. In the midst of…

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“When most Westerners think of Iran they think of international politics, religious revolution, and Islamic culture. They don’t think of leopards. But Iran’s mountainous north is home to the greatest concentration of Persian leopards left on earth. Larger than their African cousins, Persian leopards once roamed far into the Caucasus Mountains in central Asia, including parts of Armenia, Azerbeijan and Georgia. Now, only scattered populations of these big cats remain in those countries, often in isolated patches far removed from others of their kind.

Iran remains their best chance for survival. There, scientists estimate that 550 to 850 leopards roam throughout the mountain ranges ringing much of the country, and along the forests hugging the Caspian Sea. But even in its namesake country, Persian leopards are threatened. Expanding villages, encroaching livestock and busy highways destroy habitat and create hazards for such a wide-ranging predator. In recent years, a new indirect threat has emerged as well: economic sanctions.”

India has called off its hunt for a man-eating tiger that was prowling villages in the country’s north after no reports of new deaths for six weeks, wildlife officials said Monday.

The tiger has killed at least nine people since late December, eluding a team of hunters in Uttar Pradesh state who set out on foot to kill the animal. A tiger killed a 10th person on Feb. 9, but forestry officials cannot confirm the same animal was responsible.

“The hunters have been sent back home,” wildlife warden Rupak De said Monday. “We presume that the tigress has returned to the forest.”

The animal is believed to have strayed from Jim Corbett National Park in the neighboring state of Uttarakhand, moving through sugarcane fields and rivers and crossing national highways.

Although the hunt was called off earlier this month, De said wildlife officials are still tracking the animal using drones as well as 50 cameras installed in villages around the tiger reserve.

While hunters are brought in to kill man-eating tigers every year or so in India, it has been decades since a tiger killed as many people as this one, or stayed on the run for so long.

Wildlife experts know little about the tiger. They know it is a female because of the shape of its paw prints, and many believe it is somehow injured, which could explain why it overcame its natural fear of humans.

A lion has been killed and beheaded in a South African national park in what conservationists believe is for traditional “muti” medicine.

Tembe, a male lion who was the pride of the KwaZulu-Natal National Elephant Park, was found dead by conservationists at the park.

He was one of the oldest lions at the park, which lies on the border between Zululand and Mozambique, South Africa’s Independent Online reports.

Musa Mntambo, spokesman for the Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife, the government organisation responsible for maintaining the conservation area, said staff had found the rotting carcass of Tembe along with the body of a lioness who had not been beheaded.

Both had been caught in snares – a row of six traps were found nearby and authorities believe they were set up by hunters. It is thought Tembe’s head was sold or given to a nyanga – a traditional healer – to make medicine.

Mntambo said: “He was part of the heritage of the park and his killing is a great loss to the royal house and the people of Tembe, his people.”

Tembe was brought to the park in 2002 to increase the wildlife diversity in the Elephant Park and to attract more tourism.

Mntambo said park rangers had increased foot patrols to try to catch those responsible who will likely return to the area to check their snares.

Muti is commonly used in the area where Tembe was killed. Most often, lion bones are used to make traditional medicine by grinding them and mixing them with other ingredients in the belief it is “guaranteed” to make people as strong as a lion, Silwane Gumede, a nyanga who practices in the area said.

VERY URGENT PLEASE DO READ THIS.THIS IS VERY VERY IMPORTANT PLEASE READ SHARE.TANZANIA’S FORGOTTEN LIONS.NUMBERS DOCTORED BY MONEY FROM LION TROPHY HUNTING SO IT GOES ON ,ON MARCH THE 25 WE WON A BATTLE BUT EVEN A BIGGER WAR AWAITS US.THE WAR TO SAVE THE FEW REMAINING WILD LIONS IN TANZANIA.LOOSING THIS WAR IS NO OPTION.WE HAVE TO WIN BY ALL MEANS.NOT JUST FOR US NOW BUT FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS.IT SAYS SOMEWHERE EVIL PREVAILS IF GOOD MEN AND WOMEN DO NOTHING.SO I ASK YOU ,ARE YOU GOING TO KEEP ON THE SIDELINES AND STAY SILENT OR ARE YOU GOING TO STAND UP AND SAY ENOUGH IS ENOUGH I WONT LET LIONS BE WIPED OUT OF AFRICA.WE MARCHED ON THE 15 ,SUNG ,DEMONSTRATED OUR VOICES WERE HEARD.I ASK YOU ,ARE YOU GOING TO MAKE A CHANGE IN THIS WORLD TODAY.WHAT IS YOUR LEGACY.HOW DID YOU MAKE THIS A BETTER PLACE FOR THOSE AFTER YOU.IN A FEW YEARS THE QUESTION WILL BE WHAT DID YOU DO AS TROPHY HUNTERS WIPED LIONS OUT OF AFRICA.WE ARE GOING TO BE FIGHTING AGAINST AMERICAN MILLIONS AND POLITICIANS WHO OWN LION TROPHY HUNTING BLOCKS IN TANZANIA.THEY WILL TRY TO BRIBE THEIR WAY OUT TO KEEP KILLING LIONS AND MAKING MORE MONEY.THEY WILL OFFER OFFICIALS ON THE GROUND MONEY ,VISAS TO AMERICA,HOLIDAYS,CARS.SO OFFICIALS RULE IN THEIR FAVOR.SO LION TROPHY HUNTING CARRIES ON IN TANZANIA.A COUNTRY DOTTED BY AMERICAN LION HUNTING FIRMS ALL OVER ITS CORNERS.SO I ASK YOU YOU TO JOIN US AND MANY OTHERS IN UNISON.SEND SUPPORT TO TATO,A LONELY VOICE FIGHTING TO STOP THE KILLING OF LIONS FOR PLEASURE IN TANZANIA BY AMERICAN TROPHY HUNTERS .THIS IS TATO’S EMAIL OFFER THEM ANY SUPPORT YOU CAN ,EVEN AN EMAIL TO TELL THEM THEY ARE NOT SA LONE IN THE FIGHT TO END LION TROPHY HUNTING IN TANZANIA-tato@cybernet.co.tz.

A POINT TO NOTE AS WE SPEAK IN TANZANIA AROUND 5 LIONS ARE BEING SHOT BY AN AMERICAN TO BE HANGED ON A WALL IN AMERICA.AS WE SPEAK MANY MALE AND FEMALE MELISSA BACHMANS ARE ON A FLIGHT FROM AMERICA TO KILL A N INNOCENT LION NOT JUST IN TANZANIA BUT ALL OF AFRICA. YOUR GREATEST WEAPON IS THE INTERNET ,USE IT IT ,THE MEDIA ,IF YOU HAVE LINKS THERE USE THEM.THIS IS A WAR WE CAN AFFORD TO LOOSE.THIS IS A WAR WE HAVE TO WIN.SO SPEAK MATCH EDUCATE YOUR FRIENDS FAMILIES OF THE PLIGHT OF THE LAST FEW AFRICAN LIONS LEFT IN AFRICA.YOUR VOICE YOUR ACTION MATTER SO MUCH.I SALUTE YOU.NOW LETS MARCH A HEAD LIKE AN ARMY IN UNISON TILL VICTORY IS OURS.TILL LIONS CAN ROAM FREE IN AFRICA WITHOUT FEAR OF A GUN CARRYING TOURIST THERE TO KILL.http://www.lionaid.org/news/2014/03/talk-on-lion-conservation-hosted-by-tato-in-arusha-speaker-bernard-kissui-of-tawiri.htm